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I try to watch a movie a day, if not more, and through movies, I learned about so many different political themes I hadn't been interested in and cultural things I hadn't been aware of and economic factors I hadn't thought about.
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'Metal Gear Solid' is, for the most part, an infiltration game. You go somewhere, you execute your mission, then you go back. Those are your actions as the player.
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There are so many games where you fight aliens or zombies, and they have very high-fidelity graphics, but they don't ask the question of why the events are happening.
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My games are rather stressful games, where you have to play for a long time.
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I have always had a fascination about what's inside a human being.
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One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.
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I always observe the people who pass by when I ride an escalator. I'll never see most of them again, so I imagine a lot of things about their lives... about the day ahead of them.
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I don't really want to be a celebrity.
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I am tremendously excited to introduce a unique 'Metal Gear Solid' experience to a new audience of gamers as well as collaborate with my mentor in game design, Mr. Miyamoto, on 'Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes' for Nintendo GameCube.
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Japanese players do not like being thrown into an arena in which they are given very little instruction. You can head in any direction, 360 degrees. They say, 'What am I supposed to do? Give me hints. Provide me service instead of just throwing me into this arena.'
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I believe that this cooperation between Nokia and Konami will form the perfect match to share the vast potential of mobile entertainment content with users all around the world.
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My goal is to make a player think, 'I want to reenter this world of lies tomorrow.'
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Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes.
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What I'm really trying to do is create unique characters.
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Even when people abroad see me, I'm often asked about a 'Zone of the Enders' sequel.
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I always say, 'This will be my last 'Metal Gear.'
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My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success.
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I don't like necessarily that people think 'Metal Gear' defines me. I love 'Metal Gear,' don't get me wrong. But as a creator, I really want to work on other projects, including new games.
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Every time I make a new game, I put all of my effort completely into that game. It's like putting all your effort into a new child that's being born. Once the project is done, I can step back and look at it objectively, which is when I can see a lot of flaws. That's when I start to make a new game that tries to fix some of those flaws.
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As a creator, I always want to betray fans' expectations.
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In the past, the U.S. was the centre of the world, where everything was happening. I think my stories have always sought to question this, maybe even criticise it.
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Hollywood continues to present the U.S. Army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners.
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With a movie, it's probably easier to sustain intensity and seriousness over the 90-minute duration. But in an open-world game it becomes exhausting, demotivating and even uninteresting for the player.
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Stories in which the player doesn't inhabit the main character are difficult for games to handle.
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As far as how I create games, I'm just reflecting what I feel, the things I have in my mind. I put those out there. Some of the things that I'm going through, the things that surround me, might be reflected there. But for me, it's a natural process. I just reflect what I feel into the game.
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People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.
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As a game creator, I'm not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released.
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In any game, you have an enemy coming at yourself that you have to shoot. If you go back to 'Space Invaders,' they shoot at you when they come at you, so how are you going to protect yourself? You're going to shoot, and that is a typical videogame.
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There are so many books and movies I like; I never mention specific ones.
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Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.
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